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| Eight dead in Algeria car bombing |
| 2008-08-11 |
| Explosives packed into a vehicle detonated outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing eight civilians and wounding eight others, the national radio said Sunday. An officer fired on the vehicle as it was approaching the police station in Zemmouri, on Saturday night, causing the car to explode before it hit the building, the radio report said, citing security officials. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack, and the radio report gave no further details. Zemmouri is located in the Boumerdes region, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of the capital, Algiers. An August 3 bombing at a police station in another northern city, Tizi Ouzou, injured more than 20 people. Police responded with a security sweep in which 12 Islamists were killed in the restive Kabylie region, east of Algiers, the Interior Ministry said Saturday. Algeria's al-Qaeda affiliate -- al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa -- claimed responsibility for that attack, and said it had been a suicide car bombing. The group, formerly known as the GSPC, grew out of an insurgency in the 1990s. The violence was prompted by the army's cancellation of 1992 legislative elections that an Islamist party was poised to win. The violence, which killed as many as 200,000, had been waning until the GSPC's affiliated with al-Qaida in recent years. Many recent attacks in Algeria have targeted the national security services and military, while others have struck foreigners. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The wonderful religion of peace. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-08-11 09:13 |